Reading Profile

              Even though I love to read (I wouldn’t be studying library science if I didn’t!), I currently don’t read for fun as often as I would like to. After I graduate this summer, I am looking forward to getting back in the habit of doing that more often! When reading for personal enjoyment, I tend to focus much more on quality than quantity. By quality I just mean the book’s quality and appeal to me personally. I am someone who tends to want to find the “perfect book” for myself to read at that time, which limits the number of books I read overall and has probably caused me to miss out on reading many great books. However, when I was a kid I used to grab books from every shelf in the library and read many different types of books without much concern for how much I was ultimately going to like the specific book I had chosen. Starting this class has made me think back to that time and has made me want to branch out more like that again.

               My favorite fiction books of all time are the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling and the Silo series by Hugh Howey (the first book in that series, Wool, is my favorite in the series). As far as fiction goes, I would say my favorite genre is literary fiction. I also really like to read short stories. However, in general, I tend to gravitate more toward non-fiction than fiction. I particularly like biographies and books about history, as well as books about religion and philosophy (I was a religious studies major in undergraduate and absolutely loved all the reading I did for that degree!).